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Syrian refugees arrive in Wadi Hamayyed, on the outskirts of Lebanon’s northeastern border town of Arsal. (AFP/ File Photo)

March 10th, 2019 - 11:50 GMT

Refugees Not Returning to Syria Because of Bad Situation Says UNHCR Chief in Lebanon

U.N. refugee agency chief Filippo Grandi said Saturday that conditions inside Syria still present obstacles to any large scale return of refugees, despite increasing levels of security and "constructive" discussions.

The aftermath of a Syrian government airstrike on a market in Idlib in 2016. (AFP/file)

March 30th, 2017 - 02:05 GMT

Number of Syrian refugees tops 5 million, says the UN

Turkey and Lebanon, which both border Syria, are pushing for 'safe zones' across their borders. (AFP/File)

February 5th, 2017 - 12:00 GMT

UN official says Syrian ‘safe zones’ will be waste of time

United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi (L) walks past a poster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as he visits the old city of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on February 1, 2017. (AFP/George Ourfalian)

February 2nd, 2017 - 05:26 GMT

Further anti-Daesh operations in the works for Aleppo: Syria

Lebanon is currently home to over one million Syrian refugees. (AFP/File)

January 25th, 2017 - 02:00 GMT

UN appeals for over $4 billion to tackle refugee crisis

More than half of the world's refugee children that are out of school live in these seven countries: Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lebanon, Pakistan and Turkey. (AFP/File)

September 15th, 2016 - 08:05 GMT

Report: Millions of Syrian children are out of school according to UNHCR

Refugees making their way through the Balkans to Germany (AFP/file)

June 20th, 2016 - 10:00 GMT

Record 65 million people displaced worldwide, according to UN

Migrants walk next to camp beds in a makeshift refugee shelter in a gym in Stern, Germany. (AFP/File)

May 18th, 2016 - 04:00 GMT

UNHCR report: Millions of refugees at risk of homelessness

Migrants from Pakistan wait to enter Moria camp for migrants and refugees on the Greek island of Lesbos on March 21, 2016. (AFP/Stringer)

March 22nd, 2016 - 07:00 GMT

Greece begins detaining refugees to send back to Turkey

A Turkish Coast guard member holds a child on boat near the village of Kucukkuyu, in western Turkey, on March 8, 2016 after the coast guard arrested a group of migrants and refugees trying to reach the Greek island of Lesbos. (AFP/Stringer)

March 8th, 2016 - 01:12 GMT

UNHCR chief ‘deeply disturbed’ by EU-Turkey deal to curb refugees

People rush to get firewood in a makeshift camp of the Greek-Macedonian border near the Greek village of Idomeni on March 6, 2016. (AFP/Dimitar Dilkoff)

March 7th, 2016 - 11:30 GMT

Greece urged to declare state of emergency over migration crisis amid border closures

Migrants and refugees board a train after crossing the Greek-Macedonian border near Gevgelija on February 24, 2016. (AFP/Robert Atanasovski)

February 25th, 2016 - 06:00 GMT

UNHCR condemns border closures, lack of solidarity in refugee crisis

A man passes a child to a police officer as refugees board buses to the city of Tovarnik on September 15, 2015. (AFP/File)

December 19th, 2015 - 07:00 GMT

Number of global refugees to hit record 60 million by end of year